Cork-puller.



J. SHERIDAN.

. CORK FULLER.

APPLlcAT|oN-r|LED Aus.8. 1916;. 1,240,610.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

JOHN SHERIDAN, 0F SAN FRANCISCO, (ALIFORNIA.

CORK-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917,

Application filed August 8, 1916. Serial No. lldlt.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN SHERIDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and count)7 of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful lmprovementin CorkPullers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cork pullers Wherein a pair of pivotally connected blades having upwardly inclined serrations on opposite edges thereof operate in conjunction with suitable handles arranged to Vseparate the blades and thereby cause the serrations to engage and extract the cork from an oriice or the like; and the objects of my invention arev First, to provide an improved cork puller;

Second, to provide an improved cork puller arranged to engage the cork throughout the entire length thereof;

Third, to provide an improved device of the character described that will tend to draw the sides of the cork away from the sides of the orifice when the device is pulled away from the orice;

Fourth, to provide an improved cork puller having blades with serrated edges arranged to engage a cork while inserting the device into a cork; and

Fifth, to provide an improved device ot the character described having means arranged to preserve the alinement of the blades while being inserted.

l attain these several objects by means of the preferred formv of the device disclosed in the drawings forming a part of the present specification wherein like characters ot reference are-used to designate similar parts throughout the said specification and drawings, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a bottle neck having a cork therein disclosing the manner in which my improved cork puller is inserted, and' Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but disclosing the serrated blades separated as when extracting a cork.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe device removed rom the cork.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 is used to designate a blade having inclined sel-rations 2 with upwardly inclined edges 3 thereon. The blade 1 is provided with a suitable handle 4 and an arcuate slot 6 which slidably engages a pin 7 on a second blade 8 pivotally connected to the blade 1 as at 9.

The blade 8 is also provided with serrations 11 having upwardly inclined edges 12 and a suitable handle 14. 'lhe blade 8 is slightly shorter than the blade 1 as disclosed in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings in order to'provide a more gradual slant to the alined blades and thereby facilitate, inser-tion of said alined blades into a cork 16 or the like, set within an orifice 17, as represented by the neck of the bottle or similar article in the drawings.

'lhe serrations 2 and 11 are oppositely positioned so that when the blades 1 and 8 are alined as disclosed in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the back of one blade will mask the serrations oi the adjacent blade and thereby facilitate insertion of the device into a. cork or the like without seriously damaging the said cork. Y

rllhe alinenient of the blades 2 and 8 is preserved by means of the pin 7 which slidably engages or is engaged by the arcuate slot 6 ot the blade 1.

'lo illustrate, the blade 1 being slightly longer than the blade 8, in order to facilitate insertion as hereinabove described, it is evident that when the alined blades 1 and .5 are placed on the top of a cork 16 previous to insertion the blade 8 being short-er will not engage the cork.

lit the pressure be applied to the handle d of the blade 1 said blade 1 will be forced into the cork and the blade 8 will follow it. But if the pressure should inadvertently be applied to the handle 1d of the blade 8 the said handle being o center will cause the same to swing or partially rotate on the pivotal point 9 of the two blades and thereby separate the serrated portions and the points of said blades with the serrated edges on the inside edges and prevent a proper insertion. But by providing the pin 7 slidably engaged by the arcuate slot 6, separation of the alined blades 1 and 8 in the direction above indicated will be prevented.

When the alined blades 1 and 8 are inserted full length into the cork 16 as disclosed in Fig. 1 of the drawings the. two handles 4 and 14 are grasped by the hand of the operator and pressed together which will cause the alined blades l and 8 to separate and engage the cork throughout the entire length thereof as disclosed in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

By pulling the device away from the orice 17 the upwardly inclined edges 3 of the serrations 2 will tend to draw the cork 16 away from the sides of the oriice 17 and thereby greatly facilitate withdrawal or extraction of the said cork 16.

Should the cork 16 tend to stick or adhere to the sides of the orilice 17 the saine may be easily separated therefrom by the simple expedient of turning the entire device clockwise wh1ch will tend to turn or twist the cork and thereby break or separate the same from said orifice without separating the blades 1 and 8.

In order'to withdraw the device or cork puller from `a cork the handles 4 and 14 are separated until the bladesthereof are again v alined in which position the back of each blade will mask the serrations of the adj acent blade, as disclosed in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and thereby permit the removal of the device from the cork without mutilating or seriously damaging said cork.

-It is obvious from the foregoing that I have provided an improved cork puller arranged to engage a cork or the like throughout the entire length thereof, thereby greatly increasing the purchase of the device on the cork to be extracted, and also to tend to withdraw the sides of the cork away from the sides of the orifice within which it is contained thereby greatly facilitating the removal or extraction of the cork.

The details of construction are so Asusceptible to variation that I do not wish to Vthe serratios on each blade being'masked by the back of the adjacent blade when entering a cork or the like; and means adapted to slightly separate the blades whereby the inclined serrations may be projected into the cork throughout the length thereof and thereby tend to draw the sidesof the cork.

away from the sides of an orice when said blades are pulled away from said orice.

2. A. cork puller comprising a pair of alined blades pivotally connected to each other and lhaving upwardly inclined serrations on oppositely positioned edges thereof, the back of each blade being arranged to mask the serrations of the adjacent blade when entering a cork or the like; means arranged to preserve the alinement of the blades when entering a cork or the like; and a pair of handles secured-to the blades and arranged to separate the same whereby the serrations may be projected into the cork throughout the length thereof and tend to draw the sides of the cork away from the sides of an orice or the like when said blades are pulled 'away from said orifice.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my signature.

JOHN SHERIDAN. 

